http://community.xangati.com/ Xangati Community en-US Thu, 17 May 2012 13:07:34 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://community.xangati.com/search.php http://community.xangati.com/topic.php?id=30#post-36 Tue, 08 Feb 2011 16:05:04 +0000 j.baker 36@http://community.xangati.com/ <p>If your main internet connection is connected to the same network switch as your VMware server running Xangati and if your switch support port mirroring, then you can configure Xangati to monitor flows to and from your router for your VM environment and your physical environment.</p> <p>You will need a spare NIC on your VMware server. You will need to setup a mirror port on your switch to mirror the Ethernet interface that the router is connected to. Correct the mirror port to the spare Ethernet port on the VM server.</p> <p>Within VMware make sure that the spare NIC is not associated with any other virtual network. Create a new vSwitch and assign the spare NIC. Edit the properties on this new VSwitch and then edit the VM Network, but not the vSwitch) that was created. Under the security tab enable Promiscuous Mode and set to accept.</p> <p>Now edit the settings on the virtual Xangati appliance with vSphere Client. Locate an unused network adapter. Normally there are four network adapters all assigned to the VM Network vSwitch. Locate a un-configured adapter (2-3 as 1 is the default) and change the network from the default vSwitch to your newly created vSwitch.</p> <p>You now need to run the Xangati appliance (it if was not already running). Then connect to the User Interface from a workstation and select the Setup menu and go to My Network. Make sure that your local subnet is added to the Include addresses. Then move to the Infrastructure Data Feeds.</p> <p>Press Add and enter the IP address of your VM server. Change the monitoring interface to the same on that you edited for the Xangati appliance. </p> <p>Press Finnish. If all went well you should see your traffic flows to/from your router. </p> <p>If not, re-check the port mirror and vSwitch setup.</p> <p>I have this running using the free version of Xangati, although you can only setup and monitor 10 identities (devices/IP). </p> http://community.xangati.com/topic.php?id=47#post-153 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 20:32:09 +0000 XangatiTonja 153@http://community.xangati.com/ <p>View Full Release at <a href="http://searchservervirtualization.techtarget.com/guides/Products-of-the-Year-2011">techtarget.com</a> </p> http://community.xangati.com/topic.php?id=45#post-149 Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:31:16 +0000 mystlawer 149@http://community.xangati.com/ <p>Your product looks great, but is limited to vmware infrastructure. Are there plans to expand the VI which Xangati can monitor and manage?</p> <p>Thanks in advance.</p> <p>-&lt;M&gt;-<br /> Mike </p> http://community.xangati.com/topic.php?id=43#post-76 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:04:54 +0000 rodrohan 76@http://community.xangati.com/ <p>I just downloaded and installed the trial of Xangati (XSR8U2) and have the XFS_XNR4U2 package installed on one host running ESX 4.1.</p> <p>I can see the datastore statistics (IOPS, etc) for only the local disks on that host. Should I not be able to see the statistics from my SAN (iSCSI) datastores as well? Is there any extra configuration that I'm missing? </p> http://community.xangati.com/topic.php?id=42#post-75 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:33:54 +0000 XangatiTonja 75@http://community.xangati.com/ <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov8sXIuh54o" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov8sXIuh54o</a></p> <p>This in-depth tour of the Xangati dashboard discusses how to generate and analyze the data displayed within the Xangati VI and VDI Dashboards. It reveals virtual infrastructure behavior and shows how to spot anomalies in performance issues through reports and recordings. This video is ideal for someone who has installed the trial version and wants to know basic navigation techniques for their own infrastructure. </p> http://community.xangati.com/topic.php?id=41#post-73 Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:55:10 +0000 mouimet 73@http://community.xangati.com/ <p>Hi all. Have anyone successfully enabled sflow from a Dell Powerconnect switch (62xx Series) to Xangati?Interested in the steps you have taken to get this working. </p> http://community.xangati.com/topic.php?id=39#post-54 Mon, 24 Oct 2011 16:03:40 +0000 j.glumac 54@http://community.xangati.com/ <p>Working on installing Xangati for VDI and were hoping that someone had some hardware guidelines for disk size, disk speed, and RAID level that we should be using.</p> <p>Thanks. </p> http://community.xangati.com/topic.php?id=36#post-49 Thu, 19 May 2011 14:09:46 +0000 einsteinagogo 49@http://community.xangati.com/ <p>Hi, we've just started a trial of Xangati 4.1 Download, Imported the OVF, start VM, configured networking, made sure we've got a prom. port group for Xangati, made sure it's Tagged with 4095.</p> <p>But we observe no traffic.</p> <p>Zero.</p> <p>Any ideas? </p> http://community.xangati.com/topic.php?id=35#post-48 Wed, 18 May 2011 16:31:22 +0000 j.baker 48@http://community.xangati.com/ <p>Here is a working Cisco 2600 config with Netflow setup. Also DHCP and NAT are configured.</p> <pre><code>hostname cisco-2651 ! clock timezone gmt 0 clock summer-time BST recurring last Sun Mar 1:00 last Sun Oct 2:00 ip subnet-zero ip flow-cache entries 1024 ip flow-cache timeout inactive 60 ip flow-cache timeout active 1 ip flow-cache feature-accelerate ip cef ! ! ip domain-name foo.bar.com ip name-server 192.168.253.230 ip name-server 212.23.6.100 ip dhcp excluded-address 192.168.88.1 ! ip dhcp pool 0 network 192.168.88.0 255.255.255.0 domain-name foo.bar.com dns-server 192.168.253.230 212.23.6.100 default-router 192.168.88.1 ! ! interface FastEthernet0/0 bandwidth 100000 ip address 192.168.253.221 255.255.255.0 ip nat outside ip route-cache policy ip route-cache flow duplex auto speed 100 no cdp enable ! interface FastEthernet0/1 bandwidth 100000 ip address 192.168.88.1 255.255.255.0 ip nat inside duplex auto speed 100 ! interface Ethernet1/0 no ip address shutdown half-duplex ! ip default-gateway 192.168.253.254 ip nat inside source list 1 interface FastEthernet0/0 overload ip nat inside source static tcp 192.168.88.10 5900 192.168.253.221 5900 extendable ip flow-export source FastEthernet0/0 ip flow-export version 5 ip flow-export destination 192.168.253.110 2058 ip classless ip http server ip pim bidir-enable ! logging 192.168.253.220 access-list 1 permit 192.168.88.0 0.0.0.255 no cdp run snmp-server community public RO snmp-server community private RW ! ! line con 0 line aux 0 line vty 0 4 password password login ! ntp clock-period 17208075 ntp server 192.168.253.220 prefer ntp server 46.227.200.73 end</code></pre> http://community.xangati.com/topic.php?id=34#post-47 Wed, 18 May 2011 16:17:12 +0000 j.baker 47@http://community.xangati.com/ <p>You need to install NET-SNMP windows binaries</p> <p>You must edit the details to match your setup. The sflowcollector address is a hex value or the ip address of hte Xangati applaince.<br /> <pre><code>@echo off cls echo this script has been tested on a HP Procurve 2610-25 J9086A. echo you will need to have Net-SNMP 5.5.0 binaries installed. echo. echo this is a quick and dirty script to setup sflow to point towards a sflow collector. echo the sflowcollectorhex value is the ip address of the sflow collector in HEX without the dots. C0A8FDDC = 192.168.253.220 echo. echo Badly written by John Baker <a href="mailto:jbaker@ip-performance.co.uk">jbaker@ip-performance.co.uk</a> echo. set snmpwritecommunity=private set sflowport=6343 set switchip=192.168.253.83 set sflowcollectorhex=C0A8FD6E set xangatihostname=Xangati set sflowtimeout=10000000 set sflowsamplerate=60 set sflowsamplerheadersize=128 set pathtonetsmp=c:\usr\bin\ %pathtonetsmp%snmpset -v2c -c %snmpwritecommunity% %switchip% .1.3.6.1.4.1.14706.1.1.4.1.2.1 s %xangatihostname% .1.3.6.1.4.1.14706.1.1.4.1.3.1 i %sflowtimeout% .1.3.6.1.4.1.14706.1.1.4.1.4.1 i 1400 .1.3.6.1.4.1.14706.1.1.4.1.5.1 i 1 .1.3.6.1.4.1.14706.1.1.4.1.6.1 x %sflowcollectorhex% .1.3.6.1.4.1.14706.1.1.4.1.7.1 i %sflowport% .1.3.6.1.4.1.14706.1.1.4.1.8.1 i 5 echo get the number of interfaces on switch. will assume starts at 1 %pathtonetsmp%snmpget -v2c -Oq -OU -Ov -c %snmpwritecommunity% %switchip% .1.3.6.1.2.1.2.1.0 &gt;ethercountfile set /p ethercount= &lt;ethercountfile del ethercountfile /q set /a nicnum=1 set /a nicend=%ethercount%+1 :startloop IF %nicnum%==%nicend% GOTO END call %pathtonetsmp%snmpset -v2c -c %snmpwritecommunity% %switchip% .1.3.6.1.4.1.14706.1.1.5.1.3.11.1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.1.%nicnum%.1 i 1 &gt;NUL call %pathtonetsmp%snmpset -v2c -c %snmpwritecommunity% %switchip% .1.3.6.1.4.1.14706.1.1.5.1.4.11.1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.1.%nicnum%.1 i %sflowsamplerate% &gt;NUL call %pathtonetsmp%snmpset -v2c -c %snmpwritecommunity% %switchip% .1.3.6.1.4.1.14706.1.1.5.1.5.11.1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.1.%nicnum%.1 i %sflowsamplerheadersize% &gt;NUL SET /a nicnum=%nicnum%+1 GOTO startloop :end</code></pre> http://community.xangati.com/topic.php?id=33#post-46 Mon, 18 Apr 2011 22:34:09 +0000 XangatiSteve 46@http://community.xangati.com/ <p>The release notes describe the known issues, notes, security and recommended practices in Xangati Software Release (XSR) 7 U1. Click here to view: <a href="https://xangati.box.net/shared/oqpfkdpnvd" rel="nofollow">https://xangati.box.net/shared/oqpfkdpnvd</a> </p> http://community.xangati.com/topic.php?id=32#post-38 Tue, 08 Mar 2011 23:26:38 +0000 drrue 38@http://community.xangati.com/ <p>Recently deployed the free virtual appliance (XESX_XSR6US_ESX4) and found that it only came with one virtual nic configured. How do I configure a second nic so I can attach it to a promiscuous mode port group? </p> http://community.xangati.com/topic.php?id=31#post-37 Tue, 08 Feb 2011 16:31:39 +0000 j.baker 37@http://community.xangati.com/ <p>I would like to see support for authenticated SMTP servers. </p> http://community.xangati.com/topic.php?id=29#post-35 Mon, 20 Dec 2010 20:34:20 +0000 niversen 35@http://community.xangati.com/ <p>Integration with vSphere client</p> <p>If you are not using vCenter and still want to have a Xangati icon available to launch the Xangait UI directly from vSphere's management page, you may follow these guidelines:</p> <p>These steps will create a Xangati UI launch icon in vSphere client for easy access to Xangati UI:</p> <p>Save the file at the following address: <a href="https://(Xangati_IP_address)/xer_esxplugin.xml" rel="nofollow">https://(Xangati_IP_address)/xer_esxplugin.xml</a> and put it here:</p> <p>[vmware-vsphere-client]\Virtual Infrastructure Client\Plugins</p> <p>e.g., C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\Virtual Infrastructure Client\Plugins</p> <p>Of course, you will replace (Xangati_IP_address) and [vmware-vsphere-client] with the appropriate IP addresses for your environment.</p> <p>Recommended file name xer_plugin_ip.xml After saving the file, exit from vSphere client if you are already logged in. Login again to the esx where XER is a VM. The xangati icon will be visible in Home-&gt;admin area of vSphere client main window. </p> http://community.xangati.com/topic.php?id=20#post-26 Wed, 01 Dec 2010 21:55:28 +0000 niversen 26@http://community.xangati.com/ <p>Title: Understanding Xangati Licensing</p> <p>Xangati products are licensed “per socket”. Simply count the number of physical CPU sockets on the motherboard of your monitored hosts to get the number of socket licenses you need. The number of cores on each CPU is not important (i.e. a dual Quad-Core Nehelem server would use(2) socket licenses). For XESX and XESX-PRO, this is the number of sockets on the host you install on. For our larger Dashboards, it is the number of sockets used across the monitored hosts.</p> <p>As you upgrade from XESX to the Pro, and then to our Standard or Enterprise Dashboards, there are meaningful capacity and feature improvements that happen at every step. These capacities are not tied to the number of sockets, but to the license level. For example: an XESX-Pro supports up to 100 mapped identities. It does not matter if there one, two, or four sockets on the host. </p> <p>The easiest way to select the appropriate Xangati license is to use the feature/capacity table here (<a href="http://www.xangati.com/products/management-dashboards-2/" rel="nofollow">http://www.xangati.com/products/management-dashboards-2/</a>) to select the base functionality you need. Then just count up the number of sockets that you will be managing. In most cases, a Xangati “Starter Kit” will include the socket licenses you need.</p> <p>If you have a very large environment with tens or hundreds of thousands of IP addresses, you may also need to purchase "Identity Packs" to scale the number of identities. </p> http://community.xangati.com/topic.php?id=19#post-22 Wed, 03 Nov 2010 21:38:09 +0000 ErikBussink 22@http://community.xangati.com/ <p>Hello I've tried deploying multiple XFS probes in a vSphere 4.1 cluster. The XMD-E appliance was able to deploy the XFS on half the servers. On a particulier ESXi 4.1 host, it deployed the XFS probe but it must have stalled during the configuration, so I don't know if it's picking up netflow traffic or not. In the Xangati Management Dashboard I get the following error message in the XFS Deployment Status tab "Error failed checking tomcat state"</p> <p>I've attempted to redeploy the XFS four times to the same host and the result is the same.</p> <p>How can I correct this ?<br /> Thanks </p> http://community.xangati.com/topic.php?id=16#post-17 Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:19:02 +0000 blockanz 17@http://community.xangati.com/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>I am trying to install latest Xangati and for some unknown reason I can not install my subnet.</p> <p>I am trying to install with subnet 10.64.8.0/21 but appliance tells me this is an invalid network. This is incorrect, as I know that the subnet above is correct, so not sure where the issue is.</p> <p>If anyone can shed some light, it would be most appreciated.</p> <p>This is now the second time I have tried to install this product, and both times it has failed. Not really a good impression on a prospective client.</p> <p>Thanks </p> http://community.xangati.com/topic.php?id=17#post-18 Thu, 21 Oct 2010 11:15:15 +0000 ErikBussink 18@http://community.xangati.com/ <p>Hello,<br /> I've sucessfully installed the XESX-P_XSR6U2_ESX4_Appliance on my vSphere ESXi 4.1. After having configured the IP address (maybe you need to add the link to the QuickStart Guide in the emails, rather than just links to Youtube videos) I connect to the XESX appliance. But launching the Xangati Management software the java installer from a Windows x86, Windows x64 with either Java JRE 6.0.18 or Java JRE 6.0.22, I get an error message "Application Error, Unable to launch the Application !"<br /> The details of the error message are "com.sun.deploy.net.FailedDownloadException: Unable to load resource: <a href="https://127.0.0.1:443/install.jnlp" rel="nofollow">https://127.0.0.1:443/install.jnlp</a>"</p> <p>For some reason, the install.jnlp replaces it's IP addresse defined with a simple 127.0.0.1. Even manually editing the .jnlp the application does a bit further before coming back to the same error with the ip addresse 127.0.0.1 </p> http://community.xangati.com/topic.php?id=15#post-16 Wed, 22 Sep 2010 19:18:22 +0000 gharnett 16@http://community.xangati.com/ <p>This link to a single page pdf gives a quick overview of the different Xangati Dashboards and X-ESX versions--<br /> <a href="https://xangati.box.net/shared/bxgi3v4d8z" rel="nofollow">https://xangati.box.net/shared/bxgi3v4d8z</a></p> <p>George </p> http://community.xangati.com/topic.php?id=14#post-15 Thu, 16 Sep 2010 21:27:58 +0000 XangatiSteve 15@http://community.xangati.com/ <p>The Xangati Community is designed to be a friendly, informative, respectful and safe community for Xangati users and customers to exchange ideas, tips, advice and information related to Fanfare products and services. The Fanfare Community is accessible by all and will remain most valuable when everyone follows certain basic guidelines. These guidelines are presented here so that you know what is expected of you and what you can expect from other participants when using the Xangati Community.</p> <p>USAGE GUIDELINES</p> <p>Ask for help.</p> <p>* Moderators and other experienced users are here to help, so please ask for assistance if you are unsure about posting rules or forum etiquette.</p> <p>Be respectful.</p> <p>* The Xangati Community is meant to be a supportive environment for all users. Flaming or disrespecting other members is not allowed.</p> <p>Follow the “golden rules” of posting.</p> <p>* Before submitting a new post, always search the boards for a similar question or topic to see if the answer already exists.<br /> * Be as specific as possible in your post. This will help others understand your issue more easily and will lead to faster resolution.<br /> * Post to the correct category. Each board has a defined category. If your topic does not pertain to a particular category, please post it to one of the “general” topic boards.</p> <p>Act responsibly.</p> <p>* Do not give out personal information (yours or others) in public forums.<br /> * Use common sense and do not follow links or download files that seem suspicious or out of place.<br /> * Notify a moderator of any suspicious activity.</p> <p>Abuse of the following guidelines could result in suspension or banning.</p> <p>* Do not use the Xangati Community for spamming or promotion purposes. Do not post anything that could be considered spam, junk mail, advertising, or any other form of unsolicited offer.<br /> * Illegal or offensive posts, including posts that are pornographic, racist, sexist, vulgar, abusive, threatening, or otherwise objectionable, are not allowed.<br /> * Personal attacks or harassment (otherwise known as flaming) is not allowed in either public forum posts or private messages.<br /> * Refrain from posting material, or links to material, that infringes on copyrights or intellectual property rights.<br /> * Harmful files and code, including viruses, should not be included or referenced in any posts. </p> http://community.xangati.com/topic.php?id=13#post-14 Thu, 16 Sep 2010 20:43:52 +0000 XangatiSteve 14@http://community.xangati.com/ <p>How to load a Xangati virtual appliance into an ESX host </p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/xangati#p/u/6/MSxaSzadyb8" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/user/xangati#p/u/6/MSxaSzadyb8</a> </p> http://community.xangati.com/topic.php?id=12#post-13 Thu, 16 Sep 2010 20:42:55 +0000 XangatiSteve 13@http://community.xangati.com/ <p>Here's a installation "extras" video on how to configure for time zone and the assignment of NIC cards </p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/xangati#p/u/3/2LEw1AmCyq4" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/user/xangati#p/u/3/2LEw1AmCyq4</a> </p> http://community.xangati.com/topic.php?id=11#post-12 Thu, 16 Sep 2010 20:40:48 +0000 XangatiSteve 12@http://community.xangati.com/ <p>How to get your free Xangati appliance up and running in 10 minutes or less </p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/xangati#p/u/2/DYinQgGR5B0" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/user/xangati#p/u/2/DYinQgGR5B0</a> </p> http://community.xangati.com/topic.php?id=10#post-11 Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:06:18 +0000 XangatiSteve 11@http://community.xangati.com/ <p>Xangati Unveils Free VMware Tool for Unprecedented ESX/ESXi Visibility and Troubleshooting</p> <p>Read full press release: <a href="http://www.xangati.com/news/082310b/" rel="nofollow">http://www.xangati.com/news/082310b/</a> </p> http://community.xangati.com/topic.php?id=9#post-10 Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:05:17 +0000 XangatiSteve 10@http://community.xangati.com/ <p>Xangati Achieves 10 Industry Firsts for Infrastructure Performance Management in Virtual Environments</p> <p>Read full press release: <a href="http://www.xangati.com/news/082310/" rel="nofollow">http://www.xangati.com/news/082310/</a> </p> http://community.xangati.com/topic.php?id=8#post-9 Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:04:25 +0000 XangatiSteve 9@http://community.xangati.com/ <p>Xangati Awarded “Virtualization Management” Category Finalist for Best of VMworld 2010 Awards</p> <p>Read Full press release <a href="http://www.xangati.com/news/xangati-awarded-virtualization-management-category-finalist-for-best-of-vmworld-2010-awards/" rel="nofollow">http://www.xangati.com/news/xangati-awarded-virtualization-management-category-finalist-for-best-of-vmworld-2010-awards/</a> </p>